Tsonga followed his week of big upsets with an early exit Tuesday, losing his opening match at the Western & Southern Open in suburban Cincinnati. Two days after he won his second Masters title by beating Roger Federer in Toronto, he fell to Mikhail Youzhny 6-1, 6-4.

Williams knocked off sister Serena while reaching Sunday's final in Montreal, finishing second. She lost to Lucie Safarova 6-7 (2), 6-3, 6-4 in the first round Tuesday.

The tournament lost its other defending champion when Victoria Azarenka withdrew because of an injured right knee. Defending champion Rafael Nadal withdrew before the tournament with an injured wrist.

In a night match, Novak Djokovic beat Gilles Simon 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. The Western & Southern Open is the only Masters series event Djokovic has never won, finishing as the runner-up four times.

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Hernandez cousin avoids jail sentence

Tanya Singleton pleaded guilty to refusing to testify before a grand jury even though she had been granted immunity. Singleton, who has been undergoing treatment for a recurrence of breast cancer, had faced up to 2 1/2 years in jail.

Singleton, 38, of Bristol, Conn., had refused to testify before a grand jury investigating the July 2013 slaying of Odin Lloyd.

College basketball: UNLV said the NCAA has granted former USF point guard Cody Doolin another year of eligibility. Doolin left the Dons four games into his senior season after an altercation with a teammate in practice in November. Doolin graduated from USF and will play for the Runnin' Rebels as a graduate student.

Football: Serra senior Jack Dreyer, a 6-foot-8, 290-pound offensive tackle, has verbally committed to Stanford. Dreyer, who started playing football as a ninth-grader, begins his second varsity season in Serra's Sept. 5 game at De La Salle-Concord.

Golf: Rory McIlroy will not play in the Frys.com Open in Napa in October despite an earlier commitment to the event, tournament officials said Tuesday.

The officials didn't offer a reason for McIlroy's reversal, though his schedule became more crowded in the wake of his victories in the British Open and PGA Championship. He's now eligible for the Grand Slam of Golf, which begins Oct. 13 in Bermuda - one day after the final round of the Frys.

-- Atherton's Jonathan Garrick finished two rounds of stroke play at 5-under and advanced to the match play portion of the U.S. Amateur in Atlanta.